Baba Yaga, known for devouring children, lived in an equally ghoulish house surrounded skulls and skeletons. Photographer Yury Toroptsov, based in Paris, sees an image of Baba Yaga's cottage in his ancestral house.
While slavery and oppression against Africans is long gone, Indian dalits with a similar condition have been languishing for nearly 2000 years. Now they seem to have found their voice in postmodernism and other literary movements in west.
An insight into Herzog's vision of the precarious relationship between mankind, animals and wilderness, as represented in his documentaries.
Manto chose to look at the uglier side of humanity and the violence within human souls.
A look at Bianca Runge's Water and Fish Collection reminds one of the immensity of water bodies, which could be an allegory for the Universe.
Track names of PJ Harvey's next album with John Parish, ‘A Woman A Man Walked By’ revealed and a second show in Paris on demand.
Africa's oppressed souls find freedom and emancipation in their music and thus, African music symbolizes the struggle for freedom and liberty all across the world.
Part one from the Werner Herzog series in which we appreciate his unique ability to weave universal darkness with the darkness in the human soul, as represented in his films.
Art is an understated life force, which has always sensitised us and made us more humane.
David Diop's struggle against colonial ideas took the form of a literary revolution.
A look at the relevance of various forms of expressions and if art could exist within a person, and never expressed in any form.
January 26, 2009
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